This uses downloaded tarballs in /mit/git/tarballs because the autotools available on athena are too old right now. This needs a patch that will land in 7.38.1, namely 785395b07e01eb9085655d6ef311e34c2fca2224 Apply it on top of the tarball: (cd /mit/git/src/curl.git; athrun git git show 785395b07e01eb9085655d6ef311e34c2fca2224) | patch -p1 On Athena 9.4 (rhel4): ./configure --prefix=/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.38.0/common --exec-prefix=/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.38.0/i386_rhel4 --with-gssapi=/usr/athena make make install On Athena 9.4 (solaris, multics): ./configure --prefix=/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.38.0/common --exec-prefix=/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.38.0/sun4x_510 --with-gssapi=/usr/athena --enable-ldaps make make install Link common for each architecture: (cd /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.38.0;\ for arch in `ls -d *_*`; do \ (cd $arch; \ ln -sf ../common/* . )\ done;) To deploy: (cd /mit/git/curl ; ln -sf ../builds/curl-7.38.0/{i386_rhel4,sun4x_510} .)